©Courtesy of NYICFF Mifuyu Mikura’s attitude towards her family’s library of rare books is much like that of the protagonist of Drops of God with respect to her late father’s valuable wine cellar. Mikura has no bibliophilic interests, but the collection is a complicated part of her family’s history and legacy, so she must try…
The birthplace of the bossa nova is also home to the largest diasporic Japanese community outside of Japan, starting when the first immigrants arrived on June 18, 1908, a date now commemorated in Brazil as “Japanese Immigration Day.” Young Noboru’s grandfather Hideo arrived during a wave of increased immigration in the 1920s, but he rarely…
A Scream movie without Sidney Prescott made about as much sense as Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, without the Bandit. In the latest installment, even a psychopathic killer admits you cannot have a Ghostface attack without Prescott. The married survivor of multiple slashings now goes by Sidney Prescott Evans, but whether she likes it…
©Courtesy of Netflix Miyamoto Musashi was the greatest samurai of the Edo Era, who, according to legend, cut through the Shogunate’s enemies like butter during the Battle of Sekigahara. Much to his surprise, a cutting-edge cloning project reincarnates him (with a little magical help from a “medium”) to fight the worst scourge of the 21st…
©Courtesy of Netflix Her name means love in Japanese, but the pronunciation sounds very similar to “I,” as in the English singular first-person pronoun. Clearly, the title of her new life-story was intended to carry that double meaning. In 2009, Ai Haruna became the first Japanese contender to win the Miss International Queen transgender pageant…
“Life finds a way” Dr. Ian Malcolm (a.k.a. Jeff Goldblum) famously said in Jurassic Park. He was talking about sterilized dinosaurs, but it applies to post-apocalyptic dandelions as well. They might be one man’s weeds, or another man’s flowers, but four intrepid seed-bearing pappi will travel the universe in search of a safe place to…
Nobody ever considered Robert Redford a “horror icon,” but neither the Saw or V/H/S franchises would be what they are today without the buzz they generated at the Sundance Film Festival, famously founded by Redford. From its inception, the festival quickly emerged as launching pad for important films and talented filmmakers, of all genres. The…
©Courtesy of Neon Even in the far future, kids would be much better off minding their parents. The titular Arco learns that the hard way. He wanted to see dinosaurs, which sounds ridiculously irresponsible. Instead, he gets lost in time, crashing into the year 2075. At this point of human development, androids do the work…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Honestly, Edge of Tomorrow might be the worst science fiction title ever. It sounds like a 1960s soap opera. Doug Liman’s Westernized adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel should have retained the original Japanese title (despite its awkward syntax). Ironically, key-art released after the original theatrical release punched-up the marketing tagline, “Live….
©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Ben is like the Cujo of chimpanzees. He was always part of the family, until the fateful day a rabid mongoose bit him. From then on, he acts like a furry four-foot serial killer. The opposable thumbs evolution provided him lead to a long, bloody night for Lucy and her friends…
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